The English Historical Review, 1899, Vol. 14 (Classic Reprint)
Author | : Samuel Rawson Gardiner |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 804 |
Release | : 2017-10-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 1527640418 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781527640412 |
Rating | : 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English Historical Review, 1899, Vol. 14 The life of Erasmus has two sides. His biographers represent him as one engaged in correspondence with the leading men of Europe, and historians are accustomed to denounce his weak ness in not taking a side. Even the most friendly hint that at any rate he was not the stuff of which martyrs are made. Such critics completely misunderstand him. We must remember that his public life was not the principal work on which he was engaged. His most arduous labours were expended on books which many of his biographers hardly mention. It is perfectly true that his name was afiixed to editions of the fathers, to which his contribution was slight but an historian of learning must remember that during the years in which he was rebuking Luther for his violence, and the monks for their ignorance, he was laying the foundation of an historical study of Christianity, helping in editions of the fathers, contributing prefaces and criticisms, -distinguishing between the false and the genuine, hoping that the gradual spread of true religion and sound learning might extinguish, by the subtle process of intellectual influence, the barbarous errors of the schoolmen and the violent half-truths of the protestants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.